METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN SMART GRID ENVIRONMENT, ELECTRICAL POWER PRODUCING APPARATUS IN SMART GRID ENVIRONMENT

• US 20120166001A1
• Filed: 12/21/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, KT Corporation
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, KT Corporation
• Inventors: PARK, Wan Ki, LEE, Il Woo, CHOI, Chang-Sic
• Granted Patent: US 9,031,707 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/287
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/58 The condition being electrical
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/64 The condition being economic, e.g. tariff based load management
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/06 Controlling transfer of power between connected networks; Controlling sharing of load between connected networks
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/14 by switching loads on to, or off from, network, e.g. progressively balanced loading
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 3/38 Arrangements for parallely feeding a single network by two or more generators, converters or transformers
• CPC Class Codes: Y02B 70/3225 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 20/222 Demand response systems, e.g. load shedding, peak shaving
• CPC Class Codes: Y04S 50/10 Energy trading, including energy flowing from end-user application to grid

Abstract

An energy management system in a smart grid environment includes: an electrical power producing apparatus for collecting and analyzing real time price information and electrical power production environment information inputted through a communication network interface to thereby determine a control of an electrical power production; a micro grid, connected to the electrical power producing apparatus, for supplying an electrical power in a local micro grid environment; an electrical power grid, connected to the micro grid, for supplying a main power; and an energy routing service apparatus for transmitting an electrical power and processing an energy information packet for a control of an electrical power flow.

Claims

1. An energy management system in a smart grid environment, comprising:

an electrical power producing apparatus for collecting real time price information and electrical power production environment information inputted through a communication network interface, analyzing the collected the real time price information and the electrical power production environment information and determining a control of an electrical power production based on the collecting and the analyzing;

a micro grid for supplying an electrical power in a local micro grid environment, the micro grid being connected to the electrical power producing apparatus;

an electrical power grid for supplying a main power, the electrical power grid being connected to the micro grid; and

an energy routing service apparatus for performing a transmission function of an electrical power and an energy information packet process function for a control of an electrical power flow.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the electrical power producing apparatus is based on an energy prosumer who is an electrical power consumer and an electrical power provider at the same time in the smart grid environment.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the electrical power producing apparatus includes an input function for information of a produced electrical power.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the information of the produced electrical power includes producer information, electrical power quantity information, electrical power quality information and consumer information.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the consumer information includes input information for a destination consumer and the consumer information is provided to the micro grid or the electrical power grid with the produced electrical power.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the electrical power producing apparatus determines a process for the control of the electrical power production according to whether inputted price information is high or low.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the energy routing service apparatus includes:

an electrical power transmission unit for transmitting an electrical power;

a receiving process unit for performing a receiving process of an energy information packet inputted through the electrical power transmission unit;

an electrical price/policy reflection unit for performing a reflection process for an electrical power price and a policy;

a destination search unit for searching for a destination for an electrical power transmission;

a mobility reflection process unit for supporting a mobility of a consumer device having a mobility;

a route control unit for controlling an electrical power transmission route; and

a metering process unit for metering a quantity of an electrical power transmitted through the electrical power transmission unit.

8. A method for transmitting an electrical power produced in a smart grid construction based on a energy routing system, comprising:

analyzing destination information of a produced electrical power by using energy information of the produced electrical power when the energy information transmitted with the produced electrical power is received;

searching for an electrical power transmission route based on the analyzed destination information according to a protocol process based on the energy routing system;

setting the electrical power transmission route when the searching for the electrical power transmission route is completed; and

transmitting the electrical power based on the electrical power transmission route.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising

resetting the electrical power transmission route by recognizing a mobility of an energy consumption destination when the mobility of the energy consumption destination in an energy consuming apparatus having a mobility.

10. An electrical power producing apparatus for collecting real time price information and electrical power production environment information inputted through a communication network interface, analyzing the collected the real time price information and the electrical power production environment information and determining a control of an electrical power production based on a collection function and an analyzing function, comprising:

an environment information collection and analysis function unit for collecting environment information inputted by the communication interface and analyzing the collected environment information;

an electrical power production control unit for controlling a production of an electrical power based on a electrical power price and the environment information from the environment information collection and analysis function unit;

an electrical power prediction unit for prediction an electrical power quantity based on control information from the electrical power production control unit and the environment information from the environment information collection and analysis function unit;

a price information process unit for determining the electrical power price and providing the electrical power production unit with the determined electrical power price;

a destination information process unit for processing destination information based on consumer information from the environment information;

an electrical power quantity and quality sensing unit for sensing an electrical power quantity and an electrical power quality from the environment information and calculating the electrical power quantity and the electrical power quality;

a producer information process unit for processing producer information for the environment information; and

an information packet generation and transmission unit for generating an energy information packet based on the electrical power quantity and the electrical power quality from the electrical power quantity and quality sensing unit and the producer information from the producer information process unit.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the environment information includes electrical power production information.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the electrical power quantity and the electrical power quality are transmitted to the information packet generation and transmission unit.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the information packet generation and transmission unit transmits the energy information packet with a produced electrical power to a micro grid.